# I can't believe they saw this in an email. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 11, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881 "2001-10-11T20:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/21 "2001-10-12T12:42:46Z")
Our breakroom sink is clogged about once every two weeks - the main culprit being coffee grounds from all the people with their little gold Swiss coffee strainers dumping the grounds into the sink. ---
**Author:** ![johnboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@johnboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnboy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/22 "2001-10-12T12:56:28Z")
Regarding stirring coffee with finger Vs. shaking like Martini: Put the creamer/sugar in the cup first then pour coffee in. The force of the inrushing coffee will “stir” up the mixture. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/23 "2001-10-12T13:08:56Z")
Here, at work, we’re lucky enough to have an ice making machine from which people can scoop cupfulls of ice for their dringing pleasure. About once every month or so recently, there’s been a large puddle that forms under the icemaker. The reason why?.. Turns out that some idiots have thoughtfully been leaving a plastic (or styrofoam!!!) cup INSIDE the ice machine for the next person to use to scoop out ice. Unfortunately, they get pushed to the back, get buried by the NEW ice falling from the ice-making mechanism on the inside-top of the machine. Soon enough, it covers the drain hole in the bottom and… “VOILA!”, there’s a clog. think Think THINK PEOPLE!! ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/24 "2001-10-12T13:49:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > " The name’s Valdez. Juan Valdez. I’ll have a vodka Frappuccino please. Shaken, not stirred." This is totally off-topic, but I never get to use this joke: “I like my men like I like my coffee: tied up in a burlap sack on the back of a donkey.” ---
**Author:** ![Macro\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Macro\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macro_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/25 "2001-10-12T16:16:56Z")
Macro Ma’am poured a can full of grease down the sink a couple weeks ago. She was unfamiliar with the fact that when cold water hits grease, it congeals and clogs up the works. She’s not the most domestic person in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/26 "2001-10-12T16:43:22Z")
Sign above my hot tub: **I DON’T SWIM I YOUR TOILET, PLEASE DON’T PEE IN MY HOT TUB** ---
**Author:** ![nerv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85e7bf/32.png) [@nerv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nerv)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/27 "2001-10-12T16:51:47Z")
It’s quite common in public urinals in Japan to have a sign that (in translation) reads “One step forward”. It’s not a joke, and it’s not often heeded, judging by the state of the floor. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/28 "2001-10-12T16:58:31Z")
I worked in the back office of a restaurant by the breakroom for waiters and busboys. I kid you not, we had a meeting wherein the ‘captain waiter’ had to express to everyone on staff not to put USED TOILET PAPER in the TRASH CAN,but TO FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET. These were adult men and women. ADULTS. I was dumbfounded jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/29 "2001-10-12T17:10:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > **…to put USED TOILET PAPER in the TRASH CAN,but TO FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET.** :does spaztic repulsion dance: Eeew!!! ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/30 "2001-10-12T17:20:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\*At my work we have 2 large sinks. Above each sink is a large sign. “Do NOT put food or straws (for stiring coffee) in sink. Thank you.” Everyday what are the sinks full of!!! STRAWS AND FOOD!!! Fucking morons, I wanna slap them. \*\* As part of my job, not only do I get to occasionally clean out the [office refrigerator](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89975), but I am also Vice President of Hot Beverages. I kept telling everyone, stop throwing your goddamn stir-sticks in the sink! The trash can is right there next to the sink. But, alas, they would not, could not, did not stop. I had to remove all the stir sticks from the kitchen and hide them. Nobody seems to have noticed, though; it’s been weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo\_the\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mojo\_the\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_the_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/31 "2001-10-12T17:27:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*I worked in the back office of a restaurant by the breakroom for waiters and busboys. I kid you not, we had a meeting wherein the ‘captain waiter’ had to express to everyone on staff not to put USED TOILET PAPER in the TRASH CAN,but TO FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET. > > These were adult men and women. ADULTS. > > I was dumbfounded > > jarbaby \*\* That actually doesn’t sound that unusual, especially if some of your co-workers were immigrants. Apparently, in certain countries, that is the standard practice for used toilet paper disposal. (I’ve heard of this being the case in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Mexico. Perhaps it has something to do with less reliable sewage systems than are commonly found here in the United States.) ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/32 "2001-10-12T17:49:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mojo the Monkey \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > > \*\*I worked in the back office of a restaurant by the breakroom for waiters and busboys. I kid you not, we had a meeting wherein the ‘captain waiter’ had to express to everyone on staff not to put USED TOILET PAPER in the TRASH CAN,but TO FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET. > > > > These were adult men and women. ADULTS. > > > > I was dumbfounded > > > > jarbaby \*\* > > That actually doesn’t sound that unusual, especially if some of your co-workers were immigrants. Apparently, in certain countries, that is the standard practice for used toilet paper disposal. > > (I’ve heard of this being the case in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Mexico. Perhaps it has something to do with less reliable sewage systems than are commonly found here in the United States.) \*\* Yup. I was recently in Peru, and this is standard practice in some (less cosmopolitain) areas there, from what I could tell. See, the “wastewater” goes into, often, the river, or whatever. The paper trash gets burned. So this way there aren’t little blobs of paper floating around. Sort of logical, I guess, given the circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/33 "2001-10-12T18:06:53Z")
What about the paper recycling bins at work? I’m no expert on recycling, but I’m pretty sure apple cores and coke cans aren’t included in the list of “acceptable paper products” printed on the side of the bins. I truly, truly do not understand why people do the things they do. Coffee stir sticks down the sink? Why would this ever seem like a good idea to somebody? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881.md?page=1)